Head of Chivenor Primary School
Chivenor Primary School
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Dependent on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2018
- Apply by:
- 15 October 2017
Job overview
We are looking for an inspiring and visionary leader who has the determination to ensure that our pupils are given the best possible educational opportunities. As a member of the Griffin Schools Trust our three pillars of Proud Traditions, Wide Horizons and High Achievement are at the heart of everything that we do at Chivenor. Our school is in the heart of the Castle Vale community where we have a dedicated team of professionals and strong local links. We welcome visits to the school and our school website is at http://www.chivenor-gst.org/
Candidates should submit a Curriculum Vitae (including comprehensive details of key achievements and responsibilities) along with a supporting statement which fully addresses the competencies outlined in the role description and person specification.
We are keen to know specific things about you as the potential Head of Chivenor so we ask you to include the three elements below in your supporting statement:
1. No more than 600 words on your personal track record in school improvement.
2. No more than 300 words on how your leadership style fits with the Trust’s aims and values.
3. No more than 800 words on the agenda as you see it for Chivenor to become ‘great’ and how you would lead that as its next Head.
Please also include in your application the names, email addresses and direct phone numbers of two professional referees, making clear in what capacity they know you.
Completed applications should be addressed to Anne Powell CEO and sent to michelle.hall@griffinschoolstrust.org.
The deadline for applications is 1600hrs on Monday 16th October 2017.
Visits to Chivenor are welcome.
The longlist of candidates will be determined by 17th October and longlisted candidates will be invited for a primary interview at Chivenor on 18th October.
The shortlist of candidates will be selected after the primary interview and successful candidates will be invited to the Trust HQ for a second interview on 20th October.
Griffin Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will need to undertake a DBS enhanced clearance.
Attached documents
About Chivenor Primary School
- Chivenor Primary School
- Farnborough Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B35 7JA
- United Kingdom
About the Griffin Schools Trust
The Griffin Schools Trust (GST) is a family of ten primary and two secondary schools in the Midlands, London and South East. We have a strong track record in making schools much better for children and their families and for the staff who work with us. Our single most important mission is to provide the conditions in which children discover who they are and then go on confidently to take their places in society, making a contribution to the world through the use of their talents. We will never prepare children to know their places.
When schools decide to join us they bring their histories to us and together we turn them into traditions reflecting the Trust’s mission and values whilst preserving and extending the each school’s individuality. We offer a rich curriculum and an unusual range of enrichment and extension clubs and activities. We also have shared traditions so that children form every school feel part of the same family. Every summer term we hold the Griffin Arts Festival. In the spring we have Founders Day and the Science Symposium and in the autumn students compete in the Griffin Science Symposium. All these festivals are linked in an annual theme schools’ four houses compete for a Trust cup which is awarded to the house colour which has accumulated most points from all Trust events. All staff, including the CEO, belong to a house.
Great GST schools have nothing institutional about them and great GST staff are thoughtfully recruited for their excellent knowledge and their broad interests. They are developed by Heads as well as the research and training opportunities offered across the Trust to add their individual magic to the mix. All our schools practice open and distributed leadership and place a high value on creativity as well as growing great talent pipelines to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities for promotion within and beyond the school.
Look at our website and click through to some of the schools as well as the one to which you are applying. We are frequently told that colleagues have found their professional home at GST. Is it yours? We look forward to hearing from you.
Anne Powell
Chief Executive Officer
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